What’s For Lunch? 5 Places To Nosh For National Nachos Day

Today is National Nachos Day. Why? Who cares, really? Any excuse will do.

First, a quick history, according to websites: It’s 1943, and a hungry group of U.S. military wives shows up near closing time at a restaurant in the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. There’s nothing to serve. So, the maitre’d scrounges around in the kitchen, finds some cheese and tortillas, cuts them into triangles and sticks them in the oven. Adds some jalapeno peppers. And the quintessential Mexican app is born.

The name of the maitre’d? Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya. He called them his Nacho’s specials. A little tweak (apostrophe, away!) and you have what today is served in many different variations from what Nacho originally whipped up.

5. Nachos Figueras. Oops, sorry, the Wellington polo star is not on the menu. But plenty of people think he’s a dish.

Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the nachos at two local Mexican chains: Rocco’s Tacos (roccostacos.com) and Rancho Chico (ranchochico.net). And the Macho Nachos at Downtown At The Gardens’ Cabo Flats (caboflats.com)